I think striped paper is very nice, but when I´m using it I think it´s pretty hard. Here I have mixed in some black with all the stripes and it felt pretty good, as it frames all the stripes and hold them together...

For the flowers I have used punches and dotted them with a gelpen. On the bigger ones I have used flowershaped brads and on the smaller regular ronud ones. The balloon and the brads I have glittered with glitter glue.